How to extract text
- Open Extract Text from PDF and add your file.
- Copy the extracted text to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
What it's good for
Quoting from reports without retyping, feeding a document into a translator or text-to-speech reader, or getting clean text into notes apps that mangle PDF paste. Plain text is the most portable format there is.
The scanned-PDF catch
This reads the text layer inside digitally-created PDFs. Scanned documents are just pictures of pages with no text layer, so extraction comes back nearly empty — that's the file, not a bug. Those need OCR (optical character recognition).
Need the layout too?
If you want editable text *with* formatting, PDF to Word keeps more of the structure.
Private
Extraction happens in your browser; the document is never uploaded.